A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy charged with murder after killing a 12-year-old boy in a high-speed crash while off duty has pleaded no contest to vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence.

Ricardo Castro, 30, was at the wheel of his pickup truck on Nov. 3, 2021, when it rammed a car turning left in front of him at an intersection, ...Read more

WINDER, Ga. — The 14-year-old accused of fatally shooting two teachers and two students this week at Apalachee High School and his father made their first appearances in court Friday, and prosecutors announced that more charges are forthcoming.

Shackled at the hands and waist, a bleached-blond Colt Gray was the first to appear before Chief ...Read more

NEW YORK — GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump was back in a New York courtroom Friday, appearing before the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals to challenge a civil jury’s findings that he sexually abused and defamed writer E. Jean Carroll and demand a new trial.

The Republican nominee, who was not required to attend, ambled into the 17th-...Read more

ATLANTA – At least 11 juveniles and one adult in Georgia have been arrested and accused of making school threats in the days after four people were killed and nine others were injured in a shooting at Apalachee High School.

Each of the students have been charged with making terroristic threats. If convicted of a felony charge, they could face...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump will not be sentenced in his Manhattan hush money case until after the November presidential election, a judge ruled on Friday.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said he would rule on Trump’s outstanding motion to toss his conviction on Nov. 12.

He said Trump would be sentenced on Nov. 26 “if necessary....Read more

BALTIMORE — When firearms sold at Maryland gun stores turned up at crime scenes in Washington, D.C., and the surrounding suburbs in 2021, federal prosecutors took action against the man who bought the guns and illegally re-sold them, known as a straw purchaser.

Earlier this week, the attorneys general of Maryland and D.C. moved against other ...Read more

DENVER — Laboratory mice with cognitive issues including Alzheimer’s disease showed improved memory skills within a couple of weeks of treatment with a new medicine tested at Colorado State University.

The combination of drugs targets two brain proteins critical in neuroinflammation, which is involved in brain aging and Alzheimer’s, ...Read more

WINDER, Ga. — The 14-year-old accused of fatally shooting two teachers and two students this week at Apalachee High School and his father made their first appearances in court Friday, and prosecutors announced that more charges are forthcoming.

Shackled at the hands and waist, a bleached-blond Colt Gray was the first to appear before Chief ...Read more

DENVER — Laboratory mice with cognitive issues including Alzheimer’s disease showed improved memory skills within a couple of weeks of treatment with a new medicine tested at Colorado State University.

The combination of drugs targets two brain proteins critical in neuroinflammation, which is involved in brain aging and Alzheimer’s, ...Read more

Boeing’s Starliner is set to complete its Crew Flight Test without its crew with an undocking planned for Friday evening from the International Space Station and a trip back to Earth.

The spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V back on June 5 with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams docking ...Read more

ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp won’t soon have to face a decision on whether to remove members of Georgia’s State Election Board who are under fire for approving new rules that critics say are designed to favor former President Donald Trump.

That’s because Attorney General Chris Carr, a Kemp ally, declined to issue an advisory opinion Friday...Read more

ATLANTA – The city of Atlanta is facing a new federal lawsuit over claims the city’s wastewater treatment plants have repeatedly released poorly treated sewage into the waterway containing dangerous levels of bacteria and other pollutants.

The suit was filed Friday in an Atlanta federal court on behalf of the Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, just...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The family of Smiley Martin, a suspect in Sacramento’s deadliest mass shooting, has no answers about how Martin died in Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office custody as the three-month anniversary of his death approaches this weekend.

Martin was charged with two others in a brazen shooting that killed six people along ...Read more

MIAMI — A massive federal drug-trafficking sweep targeting more than two dozen suspects resulted in multiple arrests in South Florida this week.

FBI agents conducted raids on Thursday in connection with a widespread cocaine-distribution network involving at least 27 suspects over a four-year period, according to federal court records.

“I ...Read more

Colt Gray, the 14-year-old gunman accused of killing four people at his Georgia high school, appeared in court for the first time on Friday to face murder charges, less than 24 hours after the arrest of his father, who faces up to 180 years in prison for his alleged role in the massacre.

Gray, sporting a prison uniform with his dyed-blonde hair...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed emergency regulations aimed at reining in the manufacture and sale of illegal hemp products that contain intoxicating cannabinoids such as THC.

The new rules would close loopholes that manufacturers in the "intoxicating hemp" industry have exploited to skirt restrictions on hemp products, allowing ...Read more

MIAMI — Extra transit dollars helped Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava’s 2025 budget win preliminary approval Thursday night, with commissioners securing an extra $16 million for transportation reserves in a year when the newly reelected mayor says finances are the tightest since she took office.

“It won’t be easy,” Levine Cava ...Read more

MIAMI — More than two years after a 10-month-old baby girl died from ingesting fentanyl at her parents’ home in Boynton Beach, the South Florida dealers that sold the drug to the couple pleaded guilty to distributing the synthetic opioid that killed her.

Samantha Yi, 32, pled guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and ...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reinforced his plea for allies to accelerate weapons deliveries to help halt Russian advances as he met with defense ministers in Germany.

“We need to force Russia to seek peace,” Zelenskyy said in his first in-person appearance at the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at Ramstein Air Base in southwest ...Read more

About three months ago, U.S. President Joe Biden said Israel and Hamas faced a “decisive moment” when he proposed a cease-fire deal to pause their devastating war in Gaza.

His administration, despite repeated setbacks, is still pushing for an agreement and trying to end a deadlock as the war nears the one-year mark.

The U.S. will present ...Read more